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posted by janrinok on Sunday July 31 2016, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the eating-your-own-dogfood dept.

Amid Dell's looming takeover of EMC, an edict has been issued insisting that Dell customers must only ever see Dell laptops during meetings and consulting engagements, EMC insiders have told The Register. Thus, any Macs in EMC staffers' hands will be confined to quarters.

After Dell and EMC combine, those office-bound Apple computers should be safe from company-wide rollouts of Dell Windows PCs. EMC has in the past revealed it has a bring-your-own-device policy that lets people use personal devices to access email, in-house messaging and private cloud storage.

At least EMC staff after being offered nice replacement kit, in the form of the gaming-bred XPS machines, that another insider told us have been promised to incoming Dell employees.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday July 31 2016, @01:43PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Sunday July 31 2016, @01:43PM (#382268)

    The skills involved in looking for work do not always match the skills required to do the work.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday August 01 2016, @09:34AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday August 01 2016, @09:34AM (#382548) Journal
    EMC and NetApp both use quite similar software stacks (FreeBSD plus some custom stuff) and most of the folks at EMC know people at NetApp who would be happy to help them find jobs. Netflix is also aggressively hiring anyone with experience with the FreeBSD network and storage stacks. I doubt that there are many competent people at EMC who would spend more than a week unemployed if they walked out, and most of that week would be spent comparing offers.
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